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Chapter 2: The Beginning of a new year
There was complete chaos and disorder on platform nine and three quarters, there were mothers shouting at their children that they had forgotten things, there were children shouting at their parents. There were first years crying and clutching their mother's skirts. It was the same as every other year, but Hermione's parents were not seeing her off at the train this time they had to be somewhere so they had just dropped her off at the station quickly instead, so she noticed it more than ever.
"Harry, Ron" She shouted to the two boys whose heads were literally towering above everyone else's.
"Hermione!" they shouted in response. Harry took her trunk for her and got it stowed away onto the train. And they went to find an empty compartment.
"There are none" Ginny said coming up the gangway towards them. We have searched all of them now.
"Oh bloody hell" Ron said
"well me and Ron have to go to the prefects carriage for a meeting, we will be back in ten minutes, hopefully there might be a free one somewhere, if not then you guys will have to sit in the prefects one once everyone else has gone" Hermione decided
"Ok see you soon" they all said
So Hermione and Ron made their way to the front of the train.
The prefects meeting was as boring as ever and the new head boy and girl were more interested in what had gone on over the summer than who was doing what.
Malfoy just sat there looking at his nails the whole time.
"You would think that he could at least try to look like he was paying attention" Ron complained
"What's it to you weasel?" Malfoy hissed at him.
"Nothing" Hermione snapped. "Now shut up the both of you"
"Why yes mudblood, oh no sorry, I don't take orders from mudbloods, oh sorry I don't take orders from anybody" He drawled and Hermione gave him an evil glare and returned her attention to the head boy and girl who were now talking about their favourite holiday destinations
"No luck then?" Hermione asked as they found, Harry, Ginny and Neville milling about the corridor still
"Nope sorry" Ginny said she had grown a little over the summer and looked a lot more grown up. Her hair had gone from a ginger to a rich auburn colour and she looked as though she might blossom over the next couple of years.
"Well let me go and see if I can persuade some people to make some room" Hermione said
"Can I come?" Ron asked
"No!" Hermione stated firmly, "I don't need for you to come along and start getting angry if they won't"
"Alright" he mumbled and shoved his hands in his pockets
Hermione was walking along a corridor when she saw a compartment with only three other people in, that left plenty of room for them. Then she noticed who these three people actually were, Malfoy, Crabbe and Goyle/
'No hope there' she thought to herself, then 'why the bloody hell not, we can't stand all the way to Hogwarts and they weren't as great as they thought they were'
She opened the door to the compartment
"Granger!" Malfoy drawled leering at her again.
"Malfoy" she said quite primly
"What can we do for you?" he asked quite smarmily
Crabbe and Goyle just grinned like idiots
"Well I was wondering if there was a chance that you could fit another 5 of us into this compartment, as we don't have one." She asked
"And why would we want to do that?" Malfoy asked, raising an eyebrow"
"Because if you don't then I will tell Dumbledore and you know he is focussing on interhouse unity this year." She said simply
"Stuff it granger it just ain't worth it" he said
"Look its not like they would enjoy sitting with you either" she shouted, she was starting to lose her cool
"Then there's no problem is there. Nobody will get upset this way"
She
got her wand out and pointed it at the blonde haired boy
"you
either make room. Or I will bring out your ferret side and there will
be a whole lot of room" she told him "understand?"
"Fine!" he said putting his hands in the air, when this gets out I am going to be the laughing stock of slytherin,"
"I don't believe you Hermione," Harry said "of all the people on this whole train, Malfoy" he shook his head and ran his hand through his untameable hair
"We have no choice" she told him firmly "lets go"
The rest of the train ride was certainly no picnic and Hermione felt as though she was babysitting the whole way there. She and Ginny had to go to the toilets and change into their robes
"Don't you think he's cute?" The redhead asked
"Who?" Hermione said
"Harry of course" Ginny said shaking her head "who did you think I meant flipping Malfoy? Although he isn't bad"
"Oh sorry gin, I was just thinking about school stuff" Hermione excused her lack of attention
"No surprise there then" they both laughed
"He's been my friend way too long for me to be able to tell you if he is cute or not" Hermione said "but if you like him Gin then ask him out, you never know it could do him the world of good"
The girls went back to the compartment, and all hell was breaking loose. Ron was punching Crabbe and Goyle, and Harry and Malfoy were fighting. It was mental.
"THAT'S ENOUGH!!!" Hermione shouted. "What the hell is going on?"
"Potter was making digs about my father being in Azkaban" Malfoy said not quite looking her in the eye.
"Liar" Harry said "Malfoy was saying Sirius deserved to be dead"
"The two of you stop it" Ginny said "were nearly there and we have to get all of you cleaned up before Dumbledore sees you"
So the girls got to work cleaning up the boys. And were just in time as the train pulled up at Hogsmeade station.
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